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Group and Ungroup Items in Canva on Mobile and PC

Grouping items in any photo editing tool comes in handy when you want to perform a task on multiple objects together. For example, you can move them together, resize, duplicate, and more. If you’re wondering how to do that on the Canva mobile apps and website, we’ll help you here too.

Canva is used for posters, graphics, wallpapers, social media posts, etc. It’s a nice tool to create. We covered the steps for the web version of Canva and mobile apps (Android and iPhone). You can use it to group text, items, and other objects.

Let’s see how to group and ungroup items in Canva on the web (Windows, Mac), Android and iPhone.

How to Group and Ungroup Items in Canva on PC

There are three ways to group items in the web version of Canva. Let’s check each one of them one by one.

Method 1: Group Items Temporarily Using Mouse

In case you only want to act on multiple items once, you can group them temporarily. To do this, drag your cursor and select the objects you want to group. You will notice that the selection border will appear around the selected objects. Now you can resize, delete, move etc. perform the necessary actions on them.

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This is one of the easiest ways to group objects in Canva. However, the disadvantage of this method is that all objects in the selected range (usually a square or rectangle) will be selected.

Click anywhere outside the selected boxes to ungroup the objects selected using this method. The selection boxes will disappear and the objects will work individually.

Method 2: Temporarily Group Items Using Keyboard Shortcut

In this method, you will group items located anywhere on your canvas with the help of keyboard shortcuts. First, click on any of the objects you want to select. Then press the Shift key on your keyboard and click any other items you want to select.

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note: Hold down the Shift key while selecting other items.

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This method gives you free will to pick and choose items, even if they are selected using a mouse and stay within the selected range. As you can see in the screenshot above, only three clouds have been selected, not hearts.

To ungroup any object, click the mouse button while pressing the Shift key on the keyboard. This will deselect the item.

Pro Tip: If selected using the first method, you can use keyboard shortcuts to add or remove objects from the group.

Method 3: Permanently Group and Ungroup Items

In the above two methods, you will lose the group as soon as you click anywhere outside the selection. To keep selected items intact no matter what you do, Canva has a Group feature.

For this, first select the required objects using method 1 or 2. That is, drag the mouse or select items with the help of the Shift key. Once selected, click the Group button in the upper right corner. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + G (Windows) or Command + G (macOS) to group items after items are selected.

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If you click on an object or perform an action, the same happens for other grouped items.

Click one of the grouped items to ungroup the items. Then hit the Ungroup button at the top. You can also get help from keyboard shortcuts. Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + G (Windows) and Command + Shift + G (Mac) to permanently ungroup items.

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Group and Ungroup Items in Canva on Android and iPhone

To group items in the Canva Android and iPhone app, tap and hold the first item you want to group until you see Single item selected. Now tap on the other items you want to select. Press the Done button in the pop-up message box.

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At this stage, your items are temporarily grouped. As a group, you can perform the necessary action on them. Tap outside the selection box to ungroup or deselect multiple items.

If you want to group the elements permanently, i.e. for other tasks, tap the Group button at the bottom after selecting them as shown above. To ungroup, tap where all items are grouped. Then press the Ungroup button.

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